Davis v. Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The author in 2 Wigmore on Evidence § 247 (3rd ed. 1940) states: ..... "`(e) The actual making of the threats is immaterial, if there was a communication made to the defendant of supposed threats. This illustrates the contrast of principle with the doctrine of uncommunicated threats (ante, § 110).' "From the foregoing authorities, we find that the accused is entitled to testify as to his apprehensions and that for that purpose his testimony, as to threats of the decedent communicated to him by third persons, does not constitute hearsay. It matters not whether the communications were truthful or untruthful but only that the third person made the communication to the accused and that he had a right to rely upon the communications to make him apprehensive of the decedent's subsequent conduct." 533 S.W.2d 203 -04. (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 345 So. 2d 1048 - Harley v. State